Film consciousness
Subtitle: from phenomenology to Deleuze
By: Spencer Shaw.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780786433346
Subjects: Deleuze, Gilles, -- 1925-1995; Motion pictures -- Philosophy; Phenomenology
Description: "Revisits notions of memory, retentional consciousness, narrative expectation, and spatio-temporal perception while also analyzing several major films. Focuses on understanding the film experience through phenomenology; develops the idea of film consciousness as a unique vision of the world and reality. Combines the ideas of philosophers and film theorists from phenomenology with the postmodernist and transitional theorists"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-214) and index.
Table of contents: title: Phenomenology and film; title: Origins; title: The spectrum of film consciousness; title: Dialectic misgivings; title: Phenomenological grounding; title: Realist theory; title: Real to reel; title: Lifeworld encounters; title: Intentionality; title: Phenomenological hermeneutics; title: Gadamer's play; title: Body and transcendence; title: Merleau-Ponty's embodiment; title: Expression to meaning; title: Bazin's ontology; title: The negating self; title: Transcendental survival; title: Reel time; title: Temporal objectivities; title: Self-constituting flux; title: Internal time-consciousness; title: Future expectation; title: Bergson : movement and intermediate imagery; title: Reelising memory; title: Bridging gaps; title: Walter Benjamin : the new realm of film consciousness; title: Materialism and allegory; title: Dialectical images; title: Mechanical reproduction and aura; title: Returning the gaze : aura transformed; title: Benjamin and surrealism; title: Distraction and innervation; title: Deleuze and cinema; title: Montage and movement-image; title: Eisenstein montage; title: Imaging thought process; title: Affectivity and the interval; title: Vertov and the machinic; title: Liquid subjectivity; title: Marking time; title: Thinking otherwise; title: Forks of time; title: Aberrance and problem ideas; title: The split self; title: Time-out-of-joint; title: Film events; title: Outside of film.